Evolution of "woke" on Twitter. Each column shows terms distinctive to a third of a year. Size indicates frequency; order characteristicness.
| 2018q1 | 2018q2 | 2018q3 | 2018q4 | 2019q1 | 2019q2 | 2019q3 | 2019q4 | 2020q1 | 2020q2 | 2020q3 | 2020q4 | 2021q1 | 2021q2 |
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| indigenous | spotlight | white | queer | indigenous | pride | disabled | kamala | bernie | protests | trump | businesses | vaccine | juneteenth |
| folks | film | folks | voting | white | indigenous | white | pete | warren | police | blm | year | trans | term |
| writers | writers | disabled | trans | books | white | climate | issues | sanders | lives | vote | business | asian | june |
| women | white | violence | toronto | work | folks | work | warren | candidate | pandemic | lgbtq | small | communities | communities |
| work | writer | queer | folks | supremacy | writers | folks | candidate | poor | covid | lives | lgbtq | covid | community |
| want | indigenous | trans | help | disabled | disabled | racist | racist | voters | protest | systemic | owned | students | black |
| trans | disabled | women | space | kids | folx | supremacy | folks | bloomberg | black | health | characters | person | people |
| space | writing | colour | work | color | work | thread | scholars | women | privilege | matter | new | racist | poc |
| violence | work | indigenous | disabled | women | trans | really | disabled | vote | right | police | people | community | use |
| white | queer | know | non | know | color | folx | white | folks | cops | black | covid | diversity | say |